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Spammers Busted
Scud_the_disposable_ writes "CNN has posted an article about the "shutting down" of several spammers who sell fake international driver's licenses. These licenses are supposed to win back suspended driving priviledges, and make holders immune to speeding tickets and other traffic violations." What makes me even more sad is that people fell for it. So far today is a slow spam day for me. Only 81 spam, but its only 9:30.
Did they bust all the trolls as well? Not a single First Post as of 9:31!
Blarf.
Sheesh, 81 spam e-mails so far today? I guess I really don't appreciate how much of a problem this is for American's, especially the ones who have been around for a while with the same address.
My e-mail address tends to change every 2-3 years. So far I've had this new one about 5 months perhaps, and only get one spam e-mail every week or so. Of course, I don't know how much of this is because my ISP is doing its part to stop spam.
Nevertheless, this sounds like a small victory. Unless I misunderstand...
for shutting them down.
It's the fact that the advanced driving licences these guys sell enable free citizens to drive around freely, throwing down the chains of the goverment. All these driving restrictions are just irrational restrictions installed by the goverment to ban people form exercizing their human right the drive anywhere they want and how faster ever they want.
It's no coincidence that after 9/11 the number of driving restrictions raised by 236.7 percent, even after the increase of 37.89 percent when Bush became president.
Such laws are just there to get people used to a climate of restriction and oppression where the goverment can do anything they want. In Soviet Russia for example only 50 mph of the streets where allowed and for driving more then 80 miles any from your hometown you needed a special passport.
Does this ring a bell ? Ashcuft anyone ?
Sorry, but this "spam" argument in this case is just another goverment scam to fool people like the moon landing and the SDI system.
Owner of a Mensa membership card.
I whould sell the following service:
Choose the sex of you future child, money back guarentie.
FRA: STFU GTFO
Anyone asinine enough to send spam does not need to be contributing to the gene pool.
Burning Karma makes me feel all prickly inside though...
Your penis size is directly proportional to the amount of spam you receive.
sh
"[A] high IQ is like a Jeep; you will still get stuck, just farther from help!" --Just d' FAQs, c.g.a
What we need is a Fox TV show about this!
'Spam-Busters', naturally with a theme copying Ghostbusters.
I for one know I'd spend at least 3 hours a day watching people sift through IP addresses and make phone calls!
"I only speak the truth"
Karma: null(Mostly affected by an unassigned variable)
So far today is a slow spam day for me. Only 81 spam, but its only 9:30.
You need to work smarter, not harder, Taco. I'm sure that if you apply yourself, you can come up with, say, a Perl script to send hundreds, or even thousands of spam by 0900 each and every day...
In walking, just walk. In sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.
-- Yun-Men
If a rapist is in jail, they are not raping anybody.
Are you sure about that?
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I call this my "slutty" email because it's the one I use when I KNOW providing an email address will give me spam.
I call that "My Boss's E-Mail Address".
Always a fun thing.
I don't know about the other ones, but #2 is a perfectly valid e-mail.
Picture this: Jimmbob replies to an email to have his IQ raised. Jimmbob purchases said product, fully expecting to get smarter. Jimmbob, after buying sugar pills for $75, doesn't feel any smarter, cannot grasp how the little man in the fridge knows exactly when he's going to open the door, and realizes that he has been ripped off. It is at that exact moment where Jimmbob has become smarter. As I.Q. points are the agreed-upon measure of intelligence, and intelligence is a fancy word for smartness, ol' Jimmbob has, through grasping the fact that he had been taken advantage of, has dun made himself smarter.
Now lets say ol' Jimmbob has life insurance, and that those weren't sugar pills, but slow acting poison. There goes #1 and #4 right there. I'm not sure what rigormortis does to penis size, but hell, 3 out of 4 ain't bad.
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
The way most /.'ers talk, you don't want a means to stop spammers. You want a means to spot spammers.
okay, this is slightly off-topic, but I just got this email spam, and it conforms to the Nigerian spam formula -- but look at the reason!
...Shortly before her death on 31 August 1997, Princess Diana became an ardent and effective crusader against landmines. She gave numerous... ...In 1997, we opened an account with a security company in the United State of America and we make a deposit of twenty million pounds that was realized from a landmine campaign in Angola and Bosnia. ....
At least they are making it mildly interesting. I, for one, though, am still convinced that the Nigerian spam's popularity is because it is used to fund Al Qaida's "exterminate non-muslims" campaign, but I wouldn't ever be able to prove it.
But that would also explain the jump in Nigerian spam that I seem to get at different times.
---CONCENTRATED EXTRACT OF SPAM BELOW---
I am Andrew Purkis, chief executive of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund.
Diana, Princess of Wales, devoted herself to a host of domestic and international issues, such as disadvantaged children, the homeless, HIV/Aids, and landmines...
Correct Horse Battery Staple: 72 bits of entropy. Enter "Correct H" into google. When it generates the phrase, that's
Dam! I just lost my 375 bucks!
Well, going to take my herbal viagra know...
And discovered that most of the ads for porn sites are genuine.
I've also discovered that I could increase the size of my... you know what... for only $49. Who says spam's not useful?
--- My dad's political betting
From the sounds of your post, I definitely hope my wife doesn't know Taco